Sina Ahmadi Kaliji

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• PhD of Agricultural Economics
• Research fellow at University of Bologna

Choice models represent a valid approach for the analysis of consumers’ preferences as these models offer an opportunity to investigate many aspects that influence consumer behaviour. This study with the purpose of investigating consumers’ preferences and their affecting factors were conducted by using the nested logit model in Sari, Iran in 2018....

The growing environmental challenges in Mediterranean fruit and vegetables production, including water scarcity, soil degradation, and biodiversity loss, have led to increased interest in alternative food systems as a pathway to sustainable agriculture. However, a significant research gap remains in understanding consumer preferences for eco-labele...

A significant proportion of the world's food supply is lost or wasted, with profound economic, environmental, and social consequences. This waste not only represents a significant financial burden, but also wastes natural resources. Among this challenges, blockchain technology is proving to be a transformative solution. It offers decentralized syst...

This study investigates consumer preferences for organic food in Kosovo, where food safety and health concerns drive demand, contrasting with developed countries where environmental considerations are often the primary motivators. The study is based on a face-to-face survey targeting 300 consumers in the three largest Kosovo cities. The analysis em...

Blockchain is seen as a disruptive fundamental technology that will transform agri-food sectors in the near future. Blockchain is a digital, immutable, decentralized ledger of transactions that is replicated and distributed throughout the chain of computer systems on the blockchain’s network. This systematic review examines the literature to identi...

Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate consumer preferences and profile their food-related lifestyles, as well as to identify consumer groups with similar attitudes/behaviours in the Euro-Mediterranean fruit and vegetable market. Design/methodology/approach A structured questionnaire was designed drawing from the food related lifestyles...

Food safety standards remain a major concern for consumers, especially in developing and emerging economies, due to gaps in the capacities of food safety enforcement institutions and limited investments from private sector actors. This study analyzes consumer behavior and food safety-related lifestyles in Kosovo, a post-communist emerging economy....

Fruit and vegetables play a crucial role in ensuring food and nutrition security, and developing more sustainable value chains in agriculture and the agri-food sector. To support a greater supply of fruit and vegetables, small farmers’ production is fundamental and needs to be integrated into stable value chains to maintain market, logistics and qu...

The motivation behind this study is to propose a bundling strategy for the food market that integrates consumer preferences and producer revenue. Previous studies have addressed the benefits of bundling for producers and marketers, but they did not consider consumer preferences when selecting and designing the bundled content. Therefore, this study...

For some types of seafood, such as clams, there are now sustainability certificates that guarantee their sustainable production. However, their consumption may be associated with some ethical and sustainability concerns, as clams are harvested in ways that may be harmful to the environment. The aim of this study is therefore to investigate consumer...

Today, precision agriculture is proposed as a management strategy to improve the productivity of the agricultural sector as well as sustainability conditions. To this aim, precision agriculture relies on smart technologies. However, the applied technologies face challenges including the need for decision support systems, data analysis and data mini...

A transition towards a circular economy within the agri-food sector requires the improvement of efficiency in resource utilization, the prevention of food loss or waste, whilst adopting regenerative agricultural practices. In addition to the technical challenges, the agri-food industry needs to address the food safety concerns resulting from biomas...

Food traceability had been welcomed to address some concerns related to food scares or fears. Efficient food traceability helps government agencies and those who produce and sell food, in the event of a foodborne illness outbreak or contamination event, quickly find the source of the food contamination. However, traditional food traceability system...

Food loss and waste are two of the many problems that modern society is facing. To date, among many solutions, the circular economy is the one prevailing. A successful transition toward a circular economy (CE) requires the food sector to overcome the challenges of today’s complex food supply chains such as information asymmetry, poor cooperation am...

Blockchain is a decentralized immutable ledger for recording transactions and tracking assets in a network. Blockchain is a distributed digital ledger, and it has unique features that make it more relevant for circular economy in comparison with other distributed ledger mechanisms.

Concerns about animal welfare and sustainable meat production are growing among consumers. The awareness of carbon emissions linked to livestock and ethical concerns have triggered interest in more sustainable meat alternatives, among which cultured meat (also known as laboratory grown meat) is a recent entry. Like any new food, the ultimate succes...

This study develops a modified food-related lifestyle (FRL) instrument to analyse Kosovo consumers' fruit consumption behaviour and attitudes. The research is based on a structured questionnaire designed using a reduced version of the FRL instrument including evaluation factors related to fruit consumption, useful to describe a fruit-related lifest...

This study examines the extant state of research into our understanding of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in its early stages on food-purchasing behaviour. As such, it includes a summary and categorisation of the findings, extending to consumption preferences worldwide. After the indiscriminate stockpiling of food, which was witnessed in ma...

Product bundling can be attractive for consumers and also be profitable as a marketing strategy. Based on the importance of this promotion strategy, this study estimated the effect of features on consumers’ purchase preferences among 16 dairy products available in the assortment of a popular brand by using a d-level nested logit model. Data about c...

Fluctuations in the agricultural products price face producer and consumer with risk and uncertainty. Futures contract as an important tool of hedging pays to price risk management. Base on, this study has tried to use the least mean-variance method investigating agricultural product hedging situation in the Wall Street exchange market at the one-m...

Attention to medical plants due to high potential of this product in Iran and developing export of this product is very important in order to export of non-oil products. The purpose of this study is identification of the best export target markets for this product by using numerical taxonomy method. The used data are related to 2011. In this study...

Today climate change is one of the most important environmental challenges of 21 century that cause serious economic consequences. This study has been done due to important of climate change and its effect on agricultural sector with purpose of investigating the effect of climate variables on land rent in Golestan province by using Ricardian approa...

Water resources sustainability is one of the major issues in the agricultural sustainability. In this study sustainability of water resources has been investigated by use of linear and non-linear models in six models based on optimal utilization of water resources in the north parts farms of Iran because of incorrect use of agricultural water resou...

Turkey, USA, and Iran are the biggest exporters in raisins industry both in quantity and value. They are the world's largest raisin producers. In this study by using revealed comparative advantage (RCA), symmetrical revealed comparative advantage (RSCA) and 2 indicators investigate raisins export comparative advantage in Iran and top five raisins e...